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Oh God, not another one of these dreary posts. I don’t think McCain has said any more than that all senators, including Obama, should be in Washington right now doing the job they are paid for. If the bank rescue fails could to go through because the Illinois senator is making politics in Redneckville Missouri or wherever, he may have a point.

Sorry: “could fail to go through” Duh! When can we have our Preview button back?

More importantly the canceled a Letterman appearance but went on Couric. Shocking stuff.

http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/20080924_letterman_catches_mccain_two_timing_with_couric/

The Washington Post poll was totally skewed in favour of the Democrats:

“The Journal/NBC News poll comes a day after a national poll conducted for the Washington Post and ABC News found Sen. Obama with a nine-point lead. Mr. Hart, the Journal’s Democratic pollster, argued that these results were skewed because their sample included a disproportionate number of Democrats. Democrats had a 16-point advantage in the Post/ABC poll, which is considerably higher than most polls have found historically and even this year.“

Jesus, McCain (or should we blame it on his Rovian advisers?) is pathetic. And to think that (pre-Biden, pre-Palin) I was ready to vote for him.

Or as George Will puts it:

McCain Loses His Head

…It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

Read the whole thing:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202583.html

The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates

False. It is a bipartisan corporation. Before 1988 the debates were organised by nonpartisan bodies.

“Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran”

Obama is clearly leading at the moment, but the poll showing a 9 point lead was an outlier.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/general_election_mccain_vs_obama-225.html

He appears to be about 4 points ahead which is not anything to worry about yet.

A new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll shows Obama leading McCain 45 percent to 39 percent, a shift from a similar survey earlier this month that had McCain up three points.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,427241,00.html

The deal will basically be done by the time McCain gets to Washington.
Its a move planed to distract from his appaling 10 days of being on all sides of the argument, the polls, and the fact that his campaign manager may have to resign.

McCains campaign has also been hinting it wants the VP debate moved back.

Perhaps because, since Palin had the witchcraft “made away”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-on3kfWuE

There’s very little left in her head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM72M62jAUc

Bad move by McCain. Whatever his intention, it just makes him look ‘frit’ as Margaret Thatcher might say.

Given that McCain is one of very few Senators to have acheived anything on a bipartisan basis I am glad he is at the Senate for this bill.

Obama was going to go but cancelled when they banned him from bringing cameras. He’s at the gym if anyone needs him.

Given that McCain is one of very few Senators to have acheived anything on a bipartisan basis I am glad he is at the Senate for this bill.

He’s probably forgotten about it by now

Actually, if Stu’s referring to the immigration bill, McCains now says that he’d vote against his own bill.

Actually I was referring to Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 AKA the McCain–Feingold Act.

Thought it was a pretty good bill.

“Perhaps because, since Palin had the witchcraft “made away””

Here we go again – Tim once more managing to drag Palin into it. What is it with you and your bizarre obsession Tim? Is it just Palin or is it a more general hatred and fear of women?

Rather smart move by McCain to double cross Obama and return to Washington yesterday. Cheeky, wasn’t it?

McCain went to New York last night, Mike.

http://www.hurryupharry.org/2008/09/25/can-mccain-handle-multi-tasking/

sorry wrong link.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jF3KS7fhnnS6wCxMmztLn0sygyYA

Speaking of McCain, the economic crisis and Benji…..

I was delighted there was a run on a bank in Hong Kong yesterday. I was hoping that you were in the queue, Benji. Please say you were? :-)

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aes5esPH1aiU&refer=home

Here we go again – Tim once more managing to drag Palin into it. What is it with you and your bizarre obsession Tim? Is it just Palin or is it a more general hatred and fear of women?

Ironic seeing as Republicans can’t help dragging Obama or his wife into any discussion, relevant or not. Is it just them or do you have a more general hatred and fear of black people?

tim, the politics of it was good if only short lived. Because he is behind he has to make things happen like this. The New York thing somewhat undermines it though.

“Ironic seeing as Republicans can’t help dragging Obama or his wife into any discussion, relevant or not. Is it just them or do you have a more general hatred and fear of black people?”

I’m British so I’m neither a Republican nor a Democrat. But if I were American I’d be an Obama supporter – if you really need to know.

This is about Tim’s obsession with Palin – that’s all.

I think McCain did eventually return to Washington from New York. What Letterman was complaining about is that before he returned, he did the Katie Couric interview instead of appearing for the taping of Letterman’s show at the same time– despite his supposed sense of urgency about returning.

It’s in McCain’s interest to have the debate after this bill has been passed and the full focus will be on it, whereas it will be good for Obama to get this one on foreign policy – his weak suit – to be over with.

Imagine a depression on scale never before seen with Obama as president.

And In answer to Gene’s question about wheteher McCain can multitask, can Obama even unitask?

And I’m glad Tim dragged Palin into a thread on multi-tasking.

Five kids and governor of a state as opposed to suit with rhetorical flourish who ingeniously chirps ‘present’ as though it were complexe mathematical formula.

Obama was going to go but cancelled when they banned him from bringing cameras. He’s at the gym if anyone needs him.

The gym?

Are you quite sure?

I thought he might have been meeting with Ahmadinejad.

Imagine a depression on scale never before seen with Obama as president.

Even worse, imagine such a depression with McCain as president – “the fundmentals of our economy are still strong”

Gene,
The speech in New York was this morning, your time, two hours ago.
The “I’m returning to Washington Immediately” was spin.

Sen. Obama has yet to complete his first 6 year term of office as a US Senator.

He has spent 2 of the 4 years since he was elected campaigning for the Presidency. He has yet to call any meetings of the subcommittees he was assigned as chairman {Subcommittee on European Affairs}. I guess nothing important is happening in Europe right now.

He has missed over 24% of the senate votes {306 of 1287 votes since Jan 6, 2005}. I wish I could get a reputation as multi-tasker, with a record like that!

And, with only 4 years as a senator, Barack Obama has managed to receive the 3rd highest cumulative total of financial donations from the heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac great. Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman, is one of his campaign advisers.

Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama’s campaign Finance Chair and whose name has been floated as a potential Secretary of the Treasury in an Obama administration is one of the first subprime lenders to stick it to Joe Taxpayer by having her bank seized {the Superior Bank in Hinsdale, Illinois}.

Although, maybe with friends like these, it is a ‘Good Thing’ that Barack Obama doesn’t want to go back to Washington, DC, and actually do the job the voters hired him to do.

Gene,
The speech in New York was this morning, your time, two hours ago.
The “I’m returning to Washington Immediately” was spin.

Thanks.

Rather magnificently,McCain also McCain “scheduled a session with Lady Lynn de Rothschild” in the midst of the crisis he’s suddenly spotted.

From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro and Adam Aigner-Treworgy
The McCain campaign put out a statement saying, in part, “Senator Obama phoned Senator McCain at 8:30 am this morning but did not reach him. The topic of Senator Obama’s call to Senator McCain was never discussed. Senator McCain was meeting with economic advisers and talking to leaders in Congress throughout the day prior to calling Senator Obama.”

McCain also met with the moneyed former Clinton fundraiser Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, who recently threw her support to McCain.

How long was George W Bush a senator for?

As it seems McCain also want to dodge the VP debate, I can understand that If she wasn’t ready to run the campaign while super POW rushed to Washington in a “non political” move to rescue USA and the free world she is probably not ready for a VP debate.

How long was George W Bush a senator for?

Just as long as Bill Clinton.

Mike

I don’t thing there is anything wrong with BEA actually, which is a medium sized bank in Hong Kong. Anyway I don’t bank with it.

Upsetting a national broadcaster with coast to coast appeal and a top-rated show.

Not very clever!

The funniest McCain excuse so far:

The economy ate my debate homework!

This morning McCain was saying to the Clinton Foundation

I cannot carry on a campaign as though this dangerous situation had not occurred, or as though a solution were at hand, which it clearly is not. It has become clear that no consensus has developed to support the Administration’s proposal to meet the crisis. I do not believe that the plan on the table will pass as it currently stands, and we are running out of time.

in the meantime senior congressmen and the White House ar briefing that most obstacles to the deal have been overcome.

It looks to me like McCains whole approach is a stunt to try and claim he was a gamechanger.

Mc Cain was a Navy fighter pilot, so undoubtedly he had to have a way better capacity than average for multi tasking.

Sen. Obama has yet to complete his first 6 year term of office as a US Senator.

He has spent 2 of the 4 years since he was elected campaigning for the Presidency. He has yet to call any meetings of the subcommittees he was assigned as chairman {Subcommittee on European Affairs}. I guess nothing important is happening in Europe right now.

He has missed over 24% of the senate votes {306 of 1287 votes since Jan 6, 2005}. I wish I could get a reputation as multi-tasker, with a record like that!

And, with only 4 years as a senator, Barack Obama has managed to receive the 3rd highest cumulative total of financial donations from the heads of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac great. Jim Johnson, the former Fannie Mae chairman, is one of his campaign advisers.

Penny Pritzker, Barack Obama’s campaign Finance Chair and whose name has been floated as a potential Secretary of the Treasury in an Obama administration is one of the first subprime lenders to stick it to Joe Taxpayer by having her bank seized {the Superior Bank in Hinsdale, Illinois}.

Although, maybe with friends like these, it is a ‘Good Thing’ that Barack Obama doesn’t want to go back to Washington, DC, and actually do the job the voters hired him to do.

Dont forget he’s a secret Muslim too

“The US will lose its status as the superpower of the world financial system. This world will become multipolar with the emergence of stronger, better capitalised centres in Asia and Europe,”
German Finance Minister Peer Steinbruck

Wonder if any of the candidates understand how serious it is for US status as global Super Power al Qaeda and islamists is merely a irritating rash compared to what an can be if the financial crisis is unfolding in the wrong way. Not to imagine what heart beat away witch-proofed Palin grasp of this.

Hopefully the Americans is grasping the with of the disaster bush and the “near” lunatic neo-con cabal have achieved in stunningly short time.

I do not believe the remedy will be folk who’s ambition is to follow bin Laden to the gates of hell. One can only imagine what global recession it will be if hell-bent mercantilists like Germany, Japan and so forth will be on top of the global economy and ECB that makes Fed look like liberal lefties when it comes to stunned rigid neo-liberal rigidity.

Bob Latchford.
McCain has the worst attendance record in the Senate so I wouldn’t bother with that one.
You may also like to check the parlous position of Rick Davis, McCains campaign manager, re his untruthful statements regarding Fannie Mae lobbying.

In the meantime McCains progress on the bail out has been as follows.
Sunday – He’ll sign it.
Monday – Grave reservations
Tuesday – “Hasn’t had time to read it”
Wednesday- Grave Crisis.
Thurday – No deal on table-deal on table revealed – photo op.

And this is the candidate who was supposed to be good in a crisis

With this and the evidence that Sarah Palin knows less about foreign policy than the pizza delivery guy, I reckon the Republicans have lost it.

Unless they get momentum back in a dramatic fashion they are in trouble.

Lasse;

The US’ financial crisis has many culprits, but Bush had very little to do with it. You might try taking a more expansive view of things, instead of blaming the Bushies for all the Americans’ ills

Bush had very little to do with it.

Haven’t Bush been president the last 8 years, head of the American government?

It’s not only inactivity on the road to financial melt down it also interact with foreign policy, there is a limit to how much deficit the world will accept. Central banks hold a substantial share of GSE bonds. It’s a matter of how long the world will accept US deficit/debt dollars as valid currency. Add to that inept handling of Iraq and so forth that have make many doubt the American military whips efficiency. The fear of the whip is always more efficient than the whip it self and if going to be used it must show that it is capable. In short Bush and the neo-con cabal have been an disaster.

A sad commentary on the state of America where a man with impaired cognitive abilities and his idiot running mate can muster even 40% approval. I’m not sure who is the more embarrassing, Palin or McCain.

Sorry people, but what he is doing is actually genius: its a grab for taking credit for solving the biggest problem in the country (he can deliver the reluctant repubs and the administration, whereas Obama’s side is already a go) = will make him look good on economics, and its a simultaneous jab at Obama’s historically lacklustre attendence rates on Capitol hill. And O fell for it (”call me if you need me”), when he should have said “absolutely, lets go”. Even Clinton notes that this makes McCain look “Country First” (he actually said that, to my shock: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/bill-clinton-do.html).
All O’s reaction did was make him look like his motto should be “Campaign first”. Its smart. It has Carl Rove all over it.
This interpretation expanded on here:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09252008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/o_stumps_as_john_trumps_130637.htm

And when the president has to call you to DC to get you there, it just makes you look bad. Especially when it was your opponents idea that he do so.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09242008/news/nationalnews/bush_calls_for_mccain_and_obama_for_emer_130567.htm

I get the multi-tasking point, and its a good response from Obama, but it won’t be enough once McCain looks like he single-handedly delivered Wall Street a lifejacket.

By the way, I am now a republican, but I still love HP just like I did when I was a Democrat, just for the record (I just don’t think I have ever posted before now).

The only way you can use genius in the same sentence with McCain is something like, “McCain makes my dog look like a genius.”

Oh, that’s funny, because I just did. If you actually read the articles you will see I’m not alone. And by the way my dog IS a genius, mister.

Gene. you are probably a great guy who I would get on with over a number of subjects but I wish you would defer to someone who thinks they know more than most (without actually being in the USA).

This is pure bollocks and you are clutching at straws.

Obama is caught in the headlights. Of COURSE Obama’s people have to come back with a smarmy response because they have been out manouvered. Obama did all his prep for Fridays debate which is about FOREIGN POLICY (not economy) and he isn’t going to waste all those learnt lines.

If McCain said “Hey Obama, let’s do the Economy on Friday then since we’ve both just been to Washington then he will completely derail Obama.

Obama is up to his neck in Fannie (!). His financial advisor to the campaign is $90m richer due to fraud and Obama is the 2nd highest recipient of slush money. It will be great if the FBI now slap a subpoena on him.

McCain is arranging contingecy that if he is in the middle of delicate meetings in Washington then going into a debate that can be postponed for a day or so makes sense. Its a delay – not an avoidance!

Obama is the one who has refused to attend Town Hall meetings with McCain. Strange he now insists on having the debate.

And the poster who reports how the lates poll is skewed is absiolutely right. The small print tells you that MORE Dems than Republicans were polled and that a large number of African Americans were polled. Basically they decided the result they wanted and then skewed the audience.

And by the way, did anyone catch the element of classic Roman strategy he has employed in his campaign? while we were all wondering if he was in fact dead rather than running for president and Obama was sweeping everyone off their feet ( I like listening to him too – he is a truly great orator, though that’s about it)
He was employing “Play dead, get to know opponent while ensuring he does not know you, learn strengths and weaknesses, then out of nowhere, strike” That was what Palin was – his hellfire strike. And it worked. So yes, I think genius is applicable to McCain. Though my dog is in fact VERY smart.

“More importantly the canceled a Letterman appearance but went on Couric. Shocking stuff.”

Shockingly stupid. Letterman is a stone bitch, and he has sharp, sharp nails. Madame is not amused. Only a complete fool pisses him off, and this is the worst possible time to do it, too.

“This is about Tim’s obsession with Palin – that’s all.”

Whatever the focus of his obsession with her is, I have another. I don’t feel comfortable with anyone of her particular brand of religion having basically any elected office. I know about the prohibiton in the Constitution on religious tests for office, so maybe my aversion is not to her religion but to her political ideology arising out her religion. The latest thing is footage of a “bishop” praying over her to protect her from the forces of witchcraft, a preacher who lead actual, physical witchhunts in Kenya. i guess that makes her multicultural or something, so that’s points for her. Or something.

“Haven’t Bush been president the last 8 years, head of the American government?”

He’s head of the administration, and head of the Executive Branch of the government, not head of the government. Anyway, iIn theory at least and certainly in the popular mind the government doesn’t run the economy. Generally it doesn’t really run itself without detailed guidance from corporations, so actually the flow of control is the other way, isn’t it?

Obama’s plane has just landed in D.C.

So yes, I think genius is applicable to McCain

And, McCain doesn’t have to spend money on ads while he isn’t campaigning. He can wait for the vote on the bail-out’s and then refer to the corruption of Fannie and Freddy that had Obama in their pocket. The big ad spend will be in the last two weeks when the real ammunition comes out.

Anyone watching the stories that Biden is trying to get himself de-selected because of the number of gaffes he’s made?

Jim @ 7:45 pm

““More importantly the canceled a Letterman appearance but went on Couric. Shocking stuff.
Shockingly stupid. Letterman is a stone bitch, and he has sharp, sharp nails. Madame is not amused. Only a complete fool pisses him off, and this is the worst possible time to do it, too.”

McCain once referred to the MSM as his “base”. Since the Repub convention, he has surely burned his bridges.

Lasse;
Haven’t Bush been president the last 8 years, head of the American government?

Indeed. Which also makes him responsible for the high divorce rate, the fact that most Americans are fat, the California wildfires, American Idol’s falling ratings, and the ant infestation in my office.

Lasse;
Haven’t Bush been president the last 8 years, head of the American government?

Indeed. Which also makes him responsible for the high divorce rate, the fact that most Americans are fat, the California wildfires, American Idol’s falling ratings, and the ant infestation in my office.

“I wish you would defer to someone who thinks they know more than most (without actually being in the USA).”

Maven, I wish you would get to know something about a subject before asking anyone else to defer to you on that subject.

Obama caught in the headlights? Even George Will – GEORGE fucking WILL, has said that Obama is the oen acting like an adult in all this. Geneder stereotypes may be diffenrent in Britain, but flouncing out of the room and staging icy silences are not generally read as power moves in the US. McCain is coming across like a fragile, prissy little drama queen.

It doesn’t help at all that his, er Rove’s ploy with palin to rope in the Angry White Woman vote is backfiring as angry white women are watching the campaign treat her like a porcelain doll unable to face any real scrutiny from, hell any real contact with the press.

Indeed. Which also makes him responsible for the high divorce rate, the fact that most Americans are fat, the California wildfires, American Idol’s falling ratings, and the ant infestation in my office.

You innuendo that it doesn’t matter what daft lunatic is elected as president they can’t anyhow be accountable for anything that happen in USA. I suppose then McCain/Pailin is your dudes.

One of the major culprits, if not the major culprit, were changes to the Community Reinvestment Act back in the 1990s. It was actually pushed through by the Democrats, who believed that limiting loans to those who were good credit risks was unfair to the poor and the credit risky. It fell under the philosophy of ’serving the entire community’. Lenders balked at the idea, but their feet were held to the flame. You see the results.

Not everyone is equally capable of owning a home and making the payments. Social engineering can be disastrous indeed.

And when the president has to call you to DC to get you there, it just makes you look bad.

I wonder what the underlying purpose of that was, defusing the McCain attempt to get in to the economical crisis lime light and inject campaign politics in the ongoing delicate negotiations of an acceptable solution? Neither McCain nor Obama have been involved so far in the congress organs that handle these bank and financial matters they can’t have done much homework on the details on this issue.

Bush I still POTUS and the Senate and congress is parliament, McCain and Obama is of course senators but have been absent for a long time due to campaigning. To infuse even more cooks in the kitchen might even spoil the broth.

Couldn’t Bush and McCain continue their habit of communicating via video link.

Neither McCain nor Obama have been involved so far in the congress organs that handle these bank and financial matters

neither was Bush, but it’s still his fault, eh?

Here’s an excerpt from the idiot’s interview with Katie Couric on CBS:

COURIC: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land– boundary that we have with– Canada. It– it’s funny that a comment like that was– kind of made to– cari– I don’t know, you know? Reporters–
COURIC: Mock?
PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.
COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.
PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our– our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They’re in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia–
COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We– we do– it’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where– where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is– from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to– to our state.

I would swear this is a satire, maybe an updated version of “Being There.” Sadly, it is not.

The idea that banks were forced by the democrats to lend too much money is possibly the most ludicrous suggestion I’ve ever heard. Even a month ago the banks were still trying to carry on as they have been for the last 7 or 8 years. The problem is that the financial sector and the economists thought they were more clever than they actually were, and the politicians in charge believed them.

“It doesn’t help at all that his, er Rove’s ploy with palin to rope in the Angry White Woman vote is backfiring as angry white women are watching the campaign treat her like a porcelain doll unable to face any real scrutiny from, hell any real contact with the press.”

Err, yeh. Except that a lot of white women here in NYC seem a lot less angry than they were when Shrillary was 86ed – twice – by Obama Bin Biden.
Doubt me? My democrat editor friend at the NYDN came up with a great story idea to show how disliked Palin is in NYC (or democrat-central as it is also known, and a state where women carry the vote usually) and sent out a lookalike to wander round town – all the woman got was hugs, thumbs up, “We love you Sarah!”s and so forth. Editor friend not pleased but ran it anyway because she’s a professional first.

“And when the president has to call you to DC to get you there, it just makes you look bad.”

“I wonder what the underlying purpose of that was, defusing the McCain attempt to get in to the economical crisis lime light and inject campaign politics in the ongoing delicate negotiations of an acceptable solution? ”

Not sure but the Whitehouse rep said it was McCain’s idea and that Bush liked it, so he did it. I think it was to make Bush look like he really wanted input from both sides and also to make Obama look bad. Just a guess.

neither was Bush, but it’s still his fault, eh?

Of course Bush hasn’t participated in the negotiations to make a solution that can be passed in the congress. If I am informed right there is a difference in being parliamentary member and being president. If his $700 proposal was accepted does he have any accountability if it works or not works?

“McCain once referred to the MSM as his “base”. Since the Repub convention, he has surely burned his bridges.”

Yeah, No shit. Maybe he decided they lead “to nowhere”.

“……..Doubt me……..?”

No, because those aere concrete anecdotes, for what those are worth, but in general she seesm to be doing beter among men than women at least in polling. One of the things the women say is that, sure, the men like her; we remember that cheerleader type from high school – the mean, back-stabbing buitch to the girls, and all smiles with the boys.” They are not calling her a slut, they are saying she plays up to men rather than women. well, men’s votes will count for her as much as women’s.

Maven, I wish you would get to know something about a subject before asking anyone else to defer to you on that subject.

It doesn’t help at all that his, er Rove’s ploy with palin to rope in the Angry White Woman vote is backfiring as angry white women are watching the campaign treat her like a porcelain doll unable to face any real scrutiny from, hell any real contact with the press.

And so you demonstrate how I hadn’t grasped ‘the facts’ by responding with opinions!!! LOL!!!!!!!

Haven’t Bush been president the last 8 years, head of the American government?

Hasn’t the Senate been in charge of who wins the votes and Democrat for about three years?

Didn’t they kill a bi-partisan bill to tackle Fannie and Freddie in 2005 by McCain?

Here’s another gem from the idiot’s interview:

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? … Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.

Really, one of the dumber members of the GOP (and that’s saying quite a bit). No wonder the GOP is terrified of Palin at a press conference (same for McCain, who would show just how frail and out of it he is were he in front of aggressive reporters).

I would swear this is a satire, maybe an updated version of “Being There.” Sadly, it is not.

Obama: “Iran is a tiny threat”. “An undivided Jerusalem.” (a day later) “He didn’t mean that”. “We should take this action by Russia in Georgia to the security council” (where Rusia is a senior member)

Obama – top International Diplomat! LOL!!!

(same for McCain, who would show just how frail and out of it he is were he in front of aggressive reporters).

Simply because the MSM are deliberately agressive towards McCain whereas they are fawning over Obama. What I mean is that they go out of their way to hector McCain.

Anyway I don’t bank with it.

Doh!

It is– from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to– to our state.

Does she even have the slightest idea how large Russia is in terms of area and how remote and desolate Chukotka is. Does she know that about 80-85 % of the Russians live in the European parts.

Maven: I watched an ABC video of McCain being asked questions. He simply couldn’t follow what was being asked. There are times when he seems lucid, but sometimes he acts as if he is entering his dotage. Perhaps he’s just hard of hearing and doesn’t want to wear a hearing aid because it will make him look his age (i.e., old); or maybe he is actually losing it (which I think is the case). Could be related to his four bouts of melanoma. He seems terrified of debating (and he did have a rep as a good debater years ago); Obama, from what Ive read, is not an especially great debater. Of course, Palin is an idiot, a true idiot, and hasn’t a clue of anything, expect perhaps the impending rapture. Given McCain’s likely very poor health prognosis (old age, senility, cancer), a McCain presidency means a Palin presidency. The end times will really be upon us.

“And so you demonstrate how I hadn’t grasped ‘the facts’ by responding with opinions!!! LOL!!!!!!!”

Oh dear. What you are characterizing as an opinion is actually the fact of a negative opinion about McCain and a positive opinion abot Obama coming from George Will, the successor to William F. Buckley. The irony of that seems to have slipped right past you. I was reporting this gigantic counter-intutitve opinion as a data point. I was not really responding to your (irrelevant) facts with my opinion. See the difference?

And the very true fact of Obama’s being tainted by Fannie Mae connections is irrelelvant because it is it is electorally irrelevant – none of the pro-Obama voters or for that matter the anti-Obabam voters give enough of a shit about it for it to be picked up as a money-maker in the press, and that is after all what they base their editorial decisons on.

Likewise the angry reaction of white women, at least in the press, is an observable phenomenon, not my opinion. But then you would have to be following the American press to observe that. See the difference?

LOL

Lecturing Gene on a situation he is immersed in is chancy to begin with, but doing it from overseas is even riskier.

“Does she even have the slightest idea how large Russia is in terms of area and how remote and desolate Chukotka is. Does she know that about 80-85 % of the Russians live in the European parts.”

Nope.

She ducked the question about relations with Russian officials in her couric interview with some twaddle or other. The fact is that she had numerous chances to meet officials from those far eastern areas of Russia and couldn’t be bothered, and defunded the commission charged with developing relations with them.

“Given McCain’s likely very poor health prognosis (old age, senility, cancer), a McCain presidency means a Palin presidency. ‘

word.

Seen in traffic, on a bubba-ass white pick-up truck, a bumper sticker:

“McCain ‘08 – Palin ‘09″

So much for the Republicans’ working class natural constituency.

Palin tonight on Russia.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6CRObROV0

Ten year old on crack.

Tim,

There’s worse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUMUASwaec&eurl

Kevin Drum calls it Sarah Palin Unplugged
Look, this is just getting scary. I don’t care how partisan you are, you can’t watch this clip from Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric without wondering if she’s completely cracked under the pressure of running for vice president. The question is a simple softball about the bailout — something she’s had weeks to bone up on — but her answer is incoherent. Not just the usual platitudes politicians offer when they don’t feel like answering a tough query, but completely incoherent. Hell, it’s barely even in English.

In this context, those “McCain 08 – Palin 09″ license plates suddenly become a bit frightening.

You think you’re sacred already? Go see the clip where “Bishop” Murthee is praying down protection on her against witchcraft. I expected to see him kill a white chicken next to sprinkle the blood around.

““McCain once referred to the MSM as his “base”. Since the Repub convention, he has surely burned his bridges.”

Yeah, No shit. Maybe he decided they lead “to nowhere”.”

McCain would be doing better if the MSM were still soft-tossing questions and granting him practically statesman status.

You may be scared as well as sacred. Sprinkle, sprinkle.

“Rather magnificently,McCain also McCain “scheduled a session with Lady Lynn de Rothschild” in the midst of the crisis he’s suddenly spotted.”

Yeah that’s because she is a fucking financial wizard, you fool.

McCain has copied “brave, brave Sir Robin” from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Like Sir Robin, when danger, in the form of debating Obama raised its ugly head, McCain gamely turn tail and fled!

I never thought it would be McCain who broke and ran instead of Obama, but then I guess no one at Waterloo expected the Imperial Guard to be repulsed, either.

Yep David All – right as always:
Except poor deluded Bubba disagrees with you – on the basis of the fact that McCain asked for MORE debates originally. Hardly the act of a coward, but think what you like.
Here is Bubba talking bout “Country First” and how much he agrees with McCain an all dat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ7hfMFIj64&eurl=http://www.conservatismtoday.com/my_weblog/

By the way of COURSE it was Bush’s fault – he had the veto – he could have used it, and didn’t. Yes Clinton was a fool for introducing it and the Dems in Congress were greedy fools to promote it, but the buck has to stop with Bush. He announced he didn’t “like” it but then failed to do anything about it.

No David All, wrong. McCain asked for MORE debates and it was the big O who was /is afraid.
Even Bubba concedes this point:
http://www.conservatismtoday.com/my_weblog/2008/09/i-think-bill-clinton-is-voting-for-john-mccain.html

I didn’t know it was possible for Palin get worse than the Russia thing. But when she talks about the bailout it come out almost as a word salad.